-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/19/09 9:43 AM, Derek J. Balling wrote: > FUD. > > - You do not need a management server
Agreed. > The only thing you really need a management server for is if you want > to do more "enterprise" grade stuff (VMotion, moving VMs automatically > from one host to another, etc.). If you just want the virtualization > aspects, ESXi is a great solution with no management server needed > (indeed, I've recently deployed a dozen ESXi hosts which have no > management server at all... the aforementioned "web farm" ESX hosts). > And I would wager that a lot of "small shops" probably don't need the > enterprise feature set. And likely priced out of his/her budget. vCenter == likely Enterprise ESX == much $$$. Small shops shouldnt have issue with free ESXi or cheaply-priced ESX Foundation running on kit with admins using the VI/vSphere Client pointing to each respective ESX/ESXi host for administration. Hope this helps. Cheers. - -- Nick Silkey -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAko7tAcACgkQrDQjhjXrMeL7DgCgiRvzEq1IOBPomZ2i0m8cS9h8 j0UAoNfSz27qCSU8+pLznFrMFAiFcMG9 =GY4z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
